BillyBob makes sense with:

"Charlie Self" wrote in message
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Sorry, that won't wash. A contractor is not going to ask for personal
references, but only to have people who are satisfied with his work make a
statement to that effect.

With the expansion of telephone solicitation, email spam, and junk mail
we've seen in the last two decades, more people are remiss to give out their
contact information for any purpose whatsoever. That doesn't have anything
to do with lawyers, but it often is labled as privacy.

OK. That's understandable. But telephone solicitation is pretty much down the
tubes these days, so a phone call might be a decent way to get in touch. Email
has about reached the stage where it's pointless to email someone you don't
already know. Junk mail isn't really relevant in this case, but is minor
nuisance compared to the major PITA spam email brings on, and once almost
hourly interruptions provided by phone sales types.

Charlie Self
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder
respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." George Orwell